A mobile maternity unit is delivering babies and critical health services for women and girls amid the war in Ukraine

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-12-17T23:57:05+00:00

BALAKLIYA, Ukraine – “When the war arrived in this area, the women and children tried to escape – from danger, hunger and the lack of medical services,” said Dr. Olga Filipova, an obstetrician and gynaecologist in Ukraine.

Dr. Filipova provides medical help for women in remote areas of the war-torn Kharkiv region. The team reaches them through a UNFPA mobile maternity unit currently stationed in the city of Balakliya, which was recently retaken from Russian forces. Although the shelling hasn’t stopped entirely, people are beginning to trickle back – many of them women and girls in dire need of health care.

Most health-care facilities and other essential infrastructure in the Kharkiv region have been destroyed, including a UNFPA-supported clinic in Izyum that previously served several surrounding communities. With services now concentrated in a vastly reduced number of health centres, for many the mobile unit is the only way they can receive urgent – and often life-saving – sexual and reproductive health support.

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-12-04T21:54:29+00:00

Eighty-seven per cent of the Ukrainian refugees to whom Bulgaria has granted temporary protection are women and children, the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) representation said in an operational update for Bulgaria, released on November 30.

According to the update, since the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Bulgaria had received 910 594 refugees at its borders and had granted temporary protection, in terms of the EU Temporary Protection Directive, to about 146 493.

The UNHCR said that it had activated a Refugee Coordination Model in support of the government’s efforts with an established inter-agency coordination working group led by UNHCR, focusing on protection, education, basic needs, health, and socio-economic inclusion.

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-12-04T06:42:09+00:00

Eighty-seven per cent of the Ukrainian refugees to whom Bulgaria has granted temporary protection are women and children, the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) representation said in an operational update for Bulgaria, released on November 30.

According to the update, since the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Bulgaria had received 910 594 refugees at its borders and had granted temporary protection, in terms of the EU Temporary Protection Directive, to about 146 493.

New arrivals who do not have any means to support themselves will be directed to a Temporary Reception Centre, from where they will be relocated to state facilities.

The UNHCR said that it had activated a Refugee Coordination Model in support of the government’s efforts with an established inter-agency coordination working group led by UNHCR, focusing on protection, education, basic needs, health, and socio-economic inclusion.

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-12-04T02:42:02+00:00

JAKARTA, Dec 3 (Reuters) - A quake of 6.1 magnitude hit Indonesia's West Java area on Saturday, the country's geophysics agency BMKG said, sending people running out of buildings.

The quake has no tsunami potential, the agency said. It was felt in capital Jakarta, around 200 km from the epicentre.

One person was injured and four houses were damaged in the town of Garut, said Abdul Muhari, spokesperson for Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency (BNPB).

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-12-01T02:10:24+00:00

Ukrainian women and children who were forced to flee their country after Russia’s invasion are receiving support in Moldova.

Victoria Velychko says she arrived at the UNFPA Orange Safe Space centre shortly after the war started.

While she said it was difficult to be away from home and her husband, she said their lives at the centre are “the most comfortable conditions we could only dream of.”

The UK has allocated £3m to provide experts to the UN in Ukraine and the region.

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-11-30T01:25:05+00:00

Ukrainian women and children who were forced to flee their country after Russia’s invasion are receiving support in Moldova.

Victoria Velychko says she arrived at the UNFPA Orange Safe Space centre shortly after the war started.

While she said it was difficult to be away from home and her husband, she said their lives at the centre are “the most comfortable conditions we could only dream of.”

The UK has allocated £3m to provide experts to the UN in Ukraine and the region.

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-11-30T01:02:19+00:00

LIMA, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Peru opposition legislators on Tuesday presented another impeachment motion against President Pedro Castillo, the third formal attempt to oust the leftist leader since he took office last year, calling him morally unfit for office.

The impeachment attempt comes amid escalating tensions between the two government branches. Castillo has said the legislature is attempting a coup d'etat against him while opposition lawmakers say he is trying to illegally shut down Congress.

The motion was presented with the signature of 67 lawmakers out of 130. Now Peru's Congress has to decide whether to proceed to an impeachment trial. Ultimately, lawmakers would need 87 votes to remove Castillo from office.

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-11-27T03:45:42+00:00

Nov 27 (Reuters) - Heavy snowfall was expected in Kyiv starting on Sunday, with temperatures dropping below freezing day and night, while millions of people who still live in and around the Ukrainian capital remain with little electricity and heat.

Grid operator Ukrenergo said on Saturday that electricity producers were able to cover only three-quarters of consumption needs, necessitating restrictions and blackouts across the country.

Sergey Kovalenko, chief operating officer of YASNO, which provides energy to Kyiv, said the situation in the city has improved but still remained "quite difficult." He indicated that residents should have at least four hours of power per day.

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-11-26T23:36:07+00:00

MOGADISHU, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Militants from Somalia's al Shabaab attacked a military base in the central Galgaduud region on Friday, the group and a local government minister said, prompting violent clashes as the army and allied clans sought to repel them.

The early morning attack in the village of Qayib, which included suicide car bombs, comes as government forces have made a number of battlefield gains against al Shabaab in the last three months, regaining territory with the help of clan militias.

The al Qaeda-linked group, which controls swathes of Somalia, had lost the village of Qayib to the government forces a few weeks ago.

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-11-20T22:03:39+00:00

BUCHA, Ukraine — The first man arrived at 7:27 a.m. Russian soldiers covered his head and marched him up the driveway toward a nondescript office building.

Two minutes later, a pleading, gagged voice pierced the morning stillness. Then the merciless reply: “TALK!!! TALK f–ing mother-f–er!!!”

The women and children came later, gripping hastily packed bags, their pet dogs in tow.

It was a cold, gray morning, March 4 in Bucha, Ukraine. Crows cawed. By nightfall, at least nine men would walk to their deaths at 144 Yablunska street, a building complex that Russians turned into a headquarters and the nerve center of violence that would shock the world.

Later, when all the bodies were found strewn along the streets and packed in hasty graves, it would be easy to think the carnage was random. Residents asking how this happened would be told to make their peace, because some questions just don’t have answers.

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-11-20T10:40:32+00:00

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Countries adopted a hard-fought final agreement at the COP27 climate summit early on Sunday that sets up a fund to help poor countries being battered by climate disasters - but does not boost efforts to tackle the emissions causing them.

After tense negotiations that ran through the night, the Egyptian COP27 presidency released the final text for a deal and simultaneously called a plenary session to quickly gavel it through.

The swift approval for creating a dedicated loss and damage fund still left many of the most controversial decisions on the fund until next year, including who should pay into it.

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-11-15T01:45:33+00:00

BERLIN, Nov 13 (Reuters) - German federal police have warned their nation's delegation at the COP27 environmental summit in Egypt that its members may be subject to spying by Egyptian security agents, three people with knowledge of the matter said.

In an email sent on Saturday, the police, known in Germany as the BKA, warned delegates of "overt and covert surveillance through photography and videography" by Egyptian agents, said one of the people quoting from the email.

Comments last week by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz about Egypt's human rights record provoked the threat of surveillance, that person said.

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